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 rpm.espn.com: Prost team goes into receivership
Prost Grand Prix, which the Formula One star driver launched in 1997 after buying the ailing Ligier team, was placed into receivership for debts which Prost confirmed reached 200 million francs ($30 million).
Prost said leading sponsors had failed to invest because he could not offer guarantees that the team would go on for the whole of the 2002 season.
Prost Grand Prix finished the 2001 championship with a meagre four points, all won by France's Jean Alesi, who parted from his old friend and compatriot after a legal wrangle.
espn.go.com /rpm/f1/2001/1122/1282840.html   (481 words)

  
 Prost Grand Prix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Prost Grand Prix was a Formula One racing team managed by former world champion Alain Prost.
They made it to the Australian Grand Prix, but the season was a failure.
Alesi moved to Jordan Grand Prix for the rest of the year, and was replaced at Prost by Heinz-Harald Frentzen, who himself had been sacked from Jordan after Silverstone.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prost_Grand_Prix   (947 words)

  
 GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Constructors > Prost Grand Prix
Prost did a deal to use John Barnard as a technical consultant and that was announced in December 1998 with Barnard's B3 Technologies helping Bigois and the design of the AP02.
Prost bolstered the technical team midway through 1999 by hiring Alan Jenkins to be his new technical director and in the autumn hired Formula 3000 Champion Nick Heidfeld and Jean Alesi to drive in 2000.
Prost restructured again, bringing in Joan Villadelprat as managing director and Henri Durand as technical director and selling a shareholding in the team to the Diniz Family.
www.grandprix.com /gpe/con-prost.html   (461 words)

  
 Funo!: News of Prost
When Alain Prost - the Professor - decided to hang up his helmet and gloves after storing four F1 titles, he started to work out in order of fulfilling an old dream: to be his own team's manager.
Prost renamed it and, although he kept the deal with Mugen-Honda engines, the idea of being motorised by Peugeot - the company he was in-sync with - rounded his head the same.
As many specialists said, Prost GP were the responsible of progressive devaluation of Jean Alesi - the most experienced of category - among the top drivers' group.
www.funof1.com.ar /tx/mk199701014_eng_lnco_.htm   (364 words)

  
 Telegraph | Sport | Prost's term is up as team goes into liquidation
Prost, who held the world record of 51 Grand Prix wins before Germany's four-time world champion Michael Schumacher overhauled it last season, said the court's decision had not come as a real surprise.
Prost claimed it was a defeat for France, explaining that not one sponsor, backer or French buyer had made contact with him.
Prost then held talks with Saudi prince Al Waleed bin Tahal but nothing materialised, and refused a bid by former Formula One driver Pedro Diniz - who already held 40 percent of the team and had facilitated the arrival of Ferrari engines - to buy the outfit.
www.telegraph.co.uk /sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2002/01/29/umprost.xml   (632 words)

  
 rpm.espn.com: Prost found ownership difficult
Only one point was scored in the 1998 season, with Prost blaming the poor year on a serious crash suffered by Panis at the Canadian Grand Prix.
Prost's team has not gone bankrupt yet and the International Automobile Federation (FIA) said: "We received their application to participate next season before the 15 November deadline, but we won't be publishing the 2002 entry list until December 1st, as usual."
Prost was world champion in 1985, 1986, 1989 and 1993 and fans will never forget his memorable duels with arch-rival Ayrton Senna and Nelson Piquet.
espn.go.com /rpm/f1/2001/1122/1282848.html   (740 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Prost team opts for bankruptcy, plans to keep racing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Prost, who dominated Formula One as a driver for much of the 1980s and early 1990s, attributed the move to poor results and a bad economic climate.
Prost said the financial trouble stems from the withdrawal of several big sponsors at the end of the 2000 season, including engine-supplier Peugeot.
Prost Grand Prix enjoyed its best results with second-place finishes in the 1997 Spanish GP and the 1999 European GP.
www.usatoday.com /sports/motor/formula1/2001-11-22-prost-bankruptcy.htm   (351 words)

  
 Grand Prix Hall of Fame - Alain Prost - Biography
The winner of more Grand Prix victories than anyone in history remains a controversial figure when the discussion turns to the greatest drivers of all time.
Alain Prost is now the owner of his own team, ProstGrand Prix and is bringing the same amount of care and attention to detail that hallmarked his remarkable racing career.
Grand Prix History is produced by The Motorsports Publishing Group, LLC
www.ddavid.com /formula1/prost_bio.htm   (509 words)

  
 Prost_Career2
Alain Prost poses with drivers Tomas Enge and Heinz-Harald Frentzen at the Japanese GP, which sadly proved to be the last race the team would compete in.
Alain Prost, pictured leaving court after his team was declared bankrupt, says he will return to F1, but not in France.
Prost Grand Prix was created from the bones of the Ligier team after four times World Champion Alain Prost took over the French organisation in time for the 1997 season.
www.homestead.com /formulakaz/Prost_Career2.html   (412 words)

  
 SLAM! Sports Stats
*Prost looking Trulli good for home grand prix* ----------------------------------------------- The Prost Grand Prix announced today that Italian driver Jarno Trulli would take over for injured Olivier Panis in Sunday's French Grand Prix and remain with the team until the Frenchman is able to return.
The Prost team, headed by four-time Formula One champion Alain Prost and based in Magny-Cours -- site of the French Grand Prix, had taken Trulli on loan from the Minirdi team for testing at the Magny-Cours track in preparation for the eighth round of the Formula One championship.
Prost test driver Emmanuel Collard of France, Britain's Martin Brundle, Williams test driver Jean-Christophe Bouillon of France, and Brazilian Ricardo Rosset and Italian Vincenzo Sospiri -- both of the defunct Lola grand prix effort -- were speculated as possible replacements for Panis.
www.canoe.ca /StatsRAC/BC-RAC-LGNS-PROST-R.html   (618 words)

  
 Alain Prost - WOI Encyclopedia Italia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
During his Formula One career, which lasted from 1980 to 1993, he won 51 Grands Prix (a record until Michael Schumacher overtook this total in 2001) and won four World Drivers Championships (only Michael Schumacher and Juan Manuel Fangio have won more).
Prost sports a rather crooked nose, due to it having been broken on several occasions.
The rivalry between Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna is widely considered one of the most exciting ones between two sportsmen, and both were drivers clearly a class ahead of any other.
www.wheelsofitaly.com /wiki/index.php/Alain_Prost   (483 words)

  
 GrandPrix.com > Features > Financial > LVMH and Prost Grand Prix
The Prost image and the target audience has yet to be fully defined but it is likely that the aim will be to sell Prost goods to successful young entrepreneurs with an international outlook.
It is a danger which Prost will have to be aware of in the years ahead but at the moment he is convinced that the alliance will be successful.
Alain Prost says that the deal with Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy is a brilliant one for his team.
www.grandprix.com /ft/ft00346.html   (2324 words)

  
 F1A&G - Alain Prost
Frenchman Alain Prost was a four-time F1 world champion — three times in the turbocharged McLaren-Honda of the mid-1980s — but his legacy may forever remain in the shadow of teammates Lauda and Senna.
Prost's scientific, methodical approach to racing set him apart from many of his contemporaries, and led to a series of magnificent duels with his teammate and arch-rival Aryton Senna.
The Prosts have not proven particularly competitive to date, owing in part to the massive development costs and technical challenge of today's F1 specifications, but in that regard Prost shares the back of the current F1 grid with Jaguar Racing (formerly Stewart Grand Prix), the offspring of another famed Formula One World Champion, Jackie Stewart.
www.f1-grandprix.com /prost.html   (257 words)

  
 Alain Prost - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Prost is married to Anne-Marie (born 14 February 1955) and has two sons, Nicolas (born 18 October 1981) and Sacha Prost (born 30 May 1990), and a daughter, Victoria.
Prost was escorted by Police to the Interlagos circuit for the 1993 Brazilian Grand Prix due to the hostilility of Brazilians towards him.
Prost and his race engineer, John Barnard, came close to founding a team in 1990 but a lack of sponsorship meant that this was not possible, so Prost moved to Ferrari.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alain_Prost   (4487 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | FORMULA ONE  | Prost's French folly
Prost, dubbed "the professor" during his days as one of the greatest drivers in the sport, collected 51 Grands Prix wins over his 13-year career.
And the Prost team's record over five seasons is a far cry from his personal achievements on the track.
Prost blamed the poor year on a serious crash suffered by Panis at the Canadian Grand Prix and there was a slight improvement in 1999 with a final haul of nine points.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/1670316.stm   (648 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | MOTORSPORT | Mazzacane joins Prost   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Prost Grand Prix team has completed its driver line-up for the 2001 season by signing the Argentine Gaston Mazzacane.
Prost finished last in the constructor's championship last season but is more optimistic about the coming year.
Prost's decision means that there are now only two teams that have yet to confirm their driver line-ups.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/motorsport/1109623.stm   (309 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Alain Prost   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Alain Marie Pascal Prost, born February 24, 1955 in Saint-Chamond, Loire, France, is one of the most successful Formula One drivers of all time.
During his Formula One career, which lasted from 1980 to 1993, he won 51 Grand Prix (a record until Michael Schumacher overtook this total in 2001) and was driver's world champion four times.
The rivalry between Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna is said by many to be one of the most exciting ones between two drivers clearly a class ahead of any other in their day.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Alain_Prost   (259 words)

  
 Meningar.com om prost. Alain, PROST, prost mm.
Prost as a team owner was not in the same league as Prost the driver...
Alain Prost Born on July 1, 96, it was meant to be a meeting point for fans of Alain Prost...
Prost was sacked before the last race at Adelaide...
www.meningar.com /prost.html   (930 words)

  
 Quelques pages en hommage à l'écurie Prost Grand Prix sur Stuffou.com
Alain Prost, fondateur de l’écurie Prost Grand Prix, a informé ce jour ses collaborateurs de la décision du Tribunal de Commerce de Versailles : ce dernier a prononcé la liquidation judiciaire de Prost Grand Prix signifiant la cessation de son activité.
L'écurie Prost Grand Prix a été placée, lundi, en liquidation judiciaire par le tribunal de commerce de Versailles, mettant ainsi fin à l'aventure d'Alain Prost en tant que manager.
Lors de la création de l'écurie, Alain Prost visait le titre mondial des constructeurs mais son équipe n'est jamais parvenue, en quatre ans d'exercice, a remporté le moindre Grand Prix.
www.stuffou.com /f1/prostgp/tribunal.htm   (2801 words)

  
 Adecco Adds Power to Prost Grand Prix
During the 2001 season, starting in Australia on March 4th, the Adecco logo will appear on the Prost Grand Prix cars, on the drivers' overalls and on the team's uniforms.
Four-time F1 World Champion and President of Prost Grand Prix, Alain Prost, said, "Securing the valuable support of a truly world class company such as Adecco is a further sign of the growing confidence of our partners in the potential of Prost Grand Prix.
Prost Grand Prix is led by Formula One motor racing legend Alain Prost.
www.theautochannel.com /news/2001/02/28/015580.html   (594 words)

  
 Alain Prost Buys Ligier, Forms Prost Grand Prix
Prost will change the team's name to Prost Grand Prix, and compete in the 1997 world championship series with drivers Olivier Panis of France and Shinji Nakano of Japan.
Prost will use Ligier's new JS 45 cars this season and stick with the Mugen-Honda engines that they've been fitted with.
Ligier was established in 1976 and won eight Grand Prix races between 1977 and 1981.
www.theautochannel.com /news/date/19970217/news03222.html   (236 words)

  
 F1Racing.net - Every day updated Formula One news! (For Formula 1 news, results, photos and more!)
This season, strengthened by a first-class collaboration from motorist Ferrari and a three-year experience, Prost Grand Prix raced for points : despite a fragile financial context, the team was able to fight through the end of the Championship finishing in 9th place.
Prost Grand Prix is a company owned directly or indirectly by Alain Prost (51.3%), the Diniz Family (40%), LV Capital (5.8%), and Yahoo (2.9%).
Prost Development, the Financial Holding, controlled by Alain Prost (85%), is also holder of a shareholders current account of US$ 52 million in Prost Grand Prix's balance sheet.
www.f1racing.net /en/news.php?newsID=30579   (528 words)

  
 Welcome to Alain Prost Grand Prix Homepage - Professor Tips
Born on July 1, 96, it was meant to be a meeting point for fans of Alain Prost.
The Alain Prost Grand Prix Homepage is a result of careful research and thoughtful consideration.
He won 51 Grands Prix, made 41 fastest laps and gained a record 798.5 championship points.
www.glink.net.hk /~alanw/welcome.html   (549 words)

  
 In Formula One, a Driver Needs Slick Skills Outside the Car, Too
The Grand Prix circuit moves to Europe this weekend with the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola on Sunday.
Last year, after Panis broke both legs in an accident at the Canadian Grand Prix in June, the Prost team was destabilized and their race results dropped.
At the European Grand Prix in Jerez last year, the team, partly as a gesture of thanks, ordered the other McLaren driver, David Coulthard, to pull aside to give Hakkinen his first victory.
www.iht.com /articles/1998/04/24/prix.t_1.php   (996 words)

  
 Prost
But Mansour Ojieh and his men from TAG were not there so far, when Alain Prost very freely showed his frustration at the Essen Motorshow after having lost his nearly secure world title in Kyalami 1983 against Nelson Piquet in the Brabham BMW.
No doubt, this was the decisive step into a world`s career for Alain Prost, free of the pressure of the state-run Renault group making him loose the title threetimes, to win it at least in 1993 with style and dignity.
It was on a October Sunday in the year 1985 at Brands Hatch, during the Shell Oils Grand Prix of Europe.
www.research-racing.de /prost.htm   (522 words)

  
 Prost Grand Prix : Souvenir de l'écurie de F1 d'Alain (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Nounou, que bon nombre des habitués du forum PGP doivent connaître, à eu le privilège de rencontrer Nicolas Prost et Alain Prost à l'occasion d'une course de Formule Campus au Vigeant le 21 juin dernier.
Prost Grand Prix a émis bon nombre de documents et il serait dommage de ne pas essayer de les regrouper...
Mais pour les deux cents employés de Prost Grand Prix, il était de notre devoir de fan de faire en sorte que leur travail ne soit pas oublié.
www.prost-scriptum.com.cob-web.org:8888   (874 words)

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